Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Astoria "ghost house"

An old Victorian adjacent to the N line, 31-01 37th Avenue has been abandoned as long as I’ve been scouting. To me, 31-01 has all the details that make for a perfect ghost house: a looming facade, sharp, menacing angles…A weed-strewn front yard and battered door...rotting wood and lots of broken windows. I wish I knew some history about 31-01 37th Avenue, but there’s little to be found online.

23 comments:

The great entrance to that dark realm whose name they whisper: Vallonia... a dark terrifying place where none dare glance at the spectral beings whose whims rule the lives of all they hold in their enthrall ... where strange miracles happen ... as gold is magically conjured to pay for an East River ferry that goes nowhere but the steps of empty haunted waterfront towers of the politically connected ... while not a crooked farthing for the ill starred tragic Steinway Mansion.

Johnny C posts on Scouting NY:The Astoria house has been empty for at least 20 years. I live nearby and see it every day. The siding was recently pulled off, exposing the wood you see in the photos. It really needs to be ripped down. It being so close to the N train, makes the land much more valuable than the structure.---

Spoken like a true blue Vallonian -property is worth only what can be put on it - 'neighborhood'? 'community'? how quaint.

They may be waiting for the house next door to sale - and being old fashioned (one of those infamous 'neighborhood' types) they stand in the way to big buck$ - and a chance to build a human barracks next to the train (this is in that Dutch Kills Civic area) - a stunt that no one has tried en mass since the Bronx or Brooklyn in the 1920s - and look how THOSE areas turned out - but a record like THAT will hardly stand in the way of true red blooded Vallonian.

Naw, with the roof gone - the place is ripe for a fire - and - oh glorius opportunity! - just might get rid of that pesky 'neighborhood' guy next door.

Yet no one knows the Principle owners of VENTURA LAND ACQUISITIONS, LLC." and SUMMIT?

Come on now? Chuck out Apelian and the Developer creww Vallone has assembled in the Whitestone Bayside Lions Club, you know that new "bastion" on community awareness and civic mindedness. People put the damned dots together.

There's quite a bit of info about this building on the NYC DOB website (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/PropertyProfileOverviewServlet?boro=4&houseno=3101&street=37th+avenue&requestid=0&s=A03C41B885B461E4F46BD08866A7430E)including the open full demolition order from last year.

Spotted a piece of Queens Crap in your community?

Please note

Italicized passages and many of the photos come from other websites. The links to these websites are provided within the posts.

Why your neighborhood is full of Queens Crap

"The difference between dishonest and honest graft: for dishonest graft one worked solely for one's own interests, while for honest graft one pursued the interests of one's party, one's state, and one's personal interests all together." - George Washington Plunkitt

Sites that kick ass:

The above organizations are recognized by Queens Crap as being beneficial to the city as a whole, by fighting to preserve the history and character of our neighborhoods. They are not connected to this website and the opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the positions of these organizations.

The comments left by posters to this site do not necessarily represent the views of the blogger or webmaster.